Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter considers the nature of charity in capitalist society and presents an in-depth conceptualization of the form and structure of charitable food providers and the spaces they use to address food insecurity through a Marxist political economy approach. The responses to food insecurity in Canada and the UK are reflective of capitalist charity, a paradoxical social relation which is riven with antagonisms and although responding to need, fails to address the structural foundations of food insecurity. Charitable food providers address the symptoms of food insecurity and not the root cause, they are performative in many ways – addressing immediate need, responding in generous and altruistic ways, however in doing so they are performing the role of the state, which has outsourced its responsibilities and contributed to the creation and perpetuation of capitalist charity. The conceptual framework is unpacked in relation to the growth of emergency food aid providers in Canada and the UK, examining the role of the state, the welfare state, corporations, corporate social responsibility, and civil society. Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are also outlined, as an element of the food insecurity narrative.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".